Tag: volunteering

Six people, six departments, six different perspectives. Dive into faculty, staff, and students’ thoughts on spending one day at a Habitat for Humanity build. Abby Rolland There’s something powerful about putting words in actions. Here at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, we discuss and act on philanthropy in multiple ways. We act on it… Read more »

By Kellie Waring Philanthropic Studies B.A., Minor in Community Health I remember coming to IUPUI for a retreat during the middle of my high school career. We loaded a 15-passenger van with teenagers and volunteer navigators. All of us were very different and came from different backgrounds, including what school we went to, what we were interested in, and… Read more »

In a previous post, we talked about Dr. Kathi Badertscher and the ties connecting the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and Coburn Place Safe Haven. What’s another one of those ties? Bachelor’s student Erin Wuertz, who has taken full advantage of her internship opportunity in her time at the school and Coburn Place. She didn’t… Read more »

People come to the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy from all different walks of life. Dr. Kathi Badertscher worked as a broker in corporate insurance for 26 years. “It was really good for a long time; I traveled, met people, and learned a lot,” she said. About 12 years ago, she began re-thinking what she… Read more »

In October, the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy launched a new, interactive website, GenerosityforLife.org. Through this website, individuals evaluate their charitable giving and volunteering and access resources to learn more about generosity. Those resources include grant-funded research by eight scholars studying generosity through diverse lenses, including education, sociology, psychology, and economics. Funding for this research… Read more »